If you’re wondering why a post about music belongs on a WordPress help site, please read this post. If you’re interested in learning of a cool music resource for listening while developing, read on.
This first installment of Music to Develop By features a website I visit almost daily. It’s called GaragePunk.com and can be found here.
From GaragePunk.com:
GaragePunk.com was originally set up back in June 2001 as the new home for my then-weekly radio program, The Wayback Machine (KDHX-FM 88.1 in St. Louis). Later, it got a lot of worldwide exposure because of the now-defunct GaragePunk.com Forums message board, which attracted a LOT of traffic to this site. Enough traffic, in fact, that I could begin selling banner ads to help pay for the rising hosting fees involved. After three years of having nothing more than a goofy pic and a “Pick Your Poison” menu on the root directory of GaragePunk.com, I realized I should do something more with the site, so I decided to turn it into an audioblog. Meanwhile, one of my oldest friends, Bill Streeter, thought it would be cool to start a music podcast on this site, and feature a rotating schedule of various garage/punk/rock’n’roll programs hosted by different people, kinda like a real radio station. This was all done with two major goals in mind: First and foremost, we wanted to try to do more to expose the music that we think is good (as well as featured on my radio show) but that most people have never heard simply because they don’t seek it out, have never been exposed to it before, or can’t hear my show for one reason or another. Secondly, to encourage each and every one of you to support your local independently owned record stores, mailorder sites, and especially the indie labels that produce the vast majority of music featured here.
As you may have noticed, GaragePunk.com features some narrow REAL rock’n’roll musical styles, but if the word punk scares you, I would suggest you still give it a chance because it’s not all as hardcore as the name would suggest. In fact, I was surprised to learn that there are a lot of 1960’s style surf tunes.
The best part about this site is that all this music is free and can be played right from the site with a handy little Flash audio player as well as subscribed to as an audio podcast through iTunes. So the next time you’re writing posts on your WordPress blog, or editing your theme files, surf on over to GaragePunk.com and support a great service. Oh yeah, and one more thing…it’s powered by non-other than WordPress!
